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Apples Technical Information Library Articles

by: Apple

Publication date: 1997-05-01
Topics: Apple, TIL, KB, TA, Technical, Information, Articles
Collection: opensource
Language: English
Item Size: 17.6G

These PDFs contain copies of the Apple Technical Information Library Articles (later called Knowledge Base Articles, and then Technical Articles).

There are two versions of these files:

The Technical Information Library files (TIL00001-TIL60496) were taken from Apple's Services Source CDs v2.5 and v.3, with additional Articles found on the Wayback Machine (up to 1998)
The AppleCare Knowledge Base files (sorted by Name and by ID, KB000129 to KB120034) were taken from an online mirror of Apple's site in the early 2000s. These files include some articles created after the TIL files, but are missing from the TA files, for example Article ID 8647 Macintosh: File System Specifications and Terms
The Technical Article files (TA20315-TA48312) were scraped from Apple's website in 2018 and converted to PDF. They duplicate/update some of the information found in the TIL articles and also include articles not found on the Service Source CDs

I have uploaded zip files from the 3 sources containing individual PDFs or HTML files for each article (for linking to specific articles), I have also uploaded 6 large PDFs (for the TIL and TA files) that contain a collection of articles concatenated together in a single file (to simplify searches)

In addition to the TIL, KB and TA files I included TS files that are the technical specification pages for various Apple products, some of these pages are still on Apple's site, but the format has changed and is harder to read.

The byTopic.txt file lists the TIL articles grouped by category. These groupings were created by Apple in the early 90s.